Tip #1: Prompt Structure
When you're using the text-to-image feature, prompt structure is important! A few key components of a successful prompt include:
Subject: Using descriptive words to narrow down your prompt and results is critical.
Background: If you want a specific background, include that in your prompt. If you plan to remove the background, you can ask for a "plain (color) background" to make it easier.
Style: Including any artistic style preferences you have is important. Examples below!
Note: If you're looking for inspiration and don't need a specific style, you can omit this to get a variety of styles in your results.
Tip #2: Using Style Prompts
If you're aiming for a particular artistic style in your generative AI creations, you'll want to dictate exactly what you're looking for inside of your prompt. Take a look at the examples below for some inspiration.
Tip #3: Using Composition and Style References
There are two additional opportunities when generating art in Adobe Express for Education, and they can unlock a lot of possibilities for you and your students!
Style reference: Uploading a style reference allows you to keep all of your generated art in one specific style or theme.
Composition reference: Uploading a composition reference allows you to use the shape and lines from one image to build your new one using generative AI.
Style Reference
Uploading a style reference allows you to keep all of your generated art in one specific style or theme.
Composition Reference
Uploading a composition reference allows you to use the shape and lines from one image to build your new one using generative AI.
Tip #4: Best Practices for Students
Scaffolding is the key.
- Give students opportunities to play and explore. Learning to craft successful prompts is an iterative process, and failure must be celebrated and encouraged. Look below to see an example of an iterative process to create an intended design.
FAQ
- Are the parentheses necessary? Nope! They're useful for showing where prompts can be altered, but they don't affect the prompt one way or the other. You'll find that's true with most punctuation.
- Can students see what my prompt was? If you include something created with text-to-image in a template, students can click on the object and access the prompt unless you also used "insert object" or "remove object," in which case it removes your original prompt.
Text-to-Image Classroom Use
Here's a bank of ideas for using generative AI text-to-image in your classroom.
- Create a visual representation of how you're feeling
- Create a visual of emotions
- Generate a postcard sharing an historical moment
- Design an "Identity of a _____ (scientist, historian, mathematician)" trading cards
- Create a fictional animal and label/list/describe their adaptations
- Generate a visual representation of an idiom
- Create an impactful/important scene from a book
- Reimagine literary characters
- Create a visual representation of someone who looks like you in the career you aspire to
- Create an ecosystem inside of a jar (must be very descriptive)
- Create a character square for a literary character
- Generate your own comic hero and write your own graphic novel/comic
- Create images to use throughout a presentation (without searching the internet!), and make them consistent using the "style reference" feature
- Practice descriptive writing using prompts (and testing them). How descriptive can you get?
Other Prompt Ideas
Credits:
Created with an image by Daronk - "Blue and pink neon light colors, technology concept, Abstract gradient colorful for background."